- Badrock
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caption=Badrock
comic_color=background:#8080ff
character_name=Badrock
real_name=Thomas John McCall
publisher=Image Comics
debut=Youngblood #1 August 1992
creators=Rob Liefeld
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
alliances=Star Hive
aliases=
powers=Superhuman strength, reflexes and durability,
Granite like skinBadrock is a fictional
comic book superhero fromImage Comics . Created byRob Liefeld , he first appeared in Youngblood #1 April 1992.Fictional character biography
Thomas John McCall was an average under-achieving 16-year-old teenager. When he swallowed a vial of top secret genetic material in his father's lab, a startling transformation occurred and McCall's body became a mass of granite-like organic rock. He is 8'0" tall and weighs 1,800 lb. He possess super strength and a near invulnerable rock carapace. But inside this mountain-like hero is a gentle soul with a heart of gold. Badrock has a lot of power at his fingertips, but still is mentally immature. Later, Thomas assumed the identity of Badrock when he was recruited to join the high-profile government superteam, Youngblood. He is the super agent who gets paid big bucks and still answers to his parents.
Badrock is proficient with a number of weapons including the many guns and knives available to him in the Youngblood arsenal. Not one to hide behind gadgetry, Badrock often uses the incredible power of his fists to pummel opponents into submission.
Badrock is impulsive, having picked dangerous, property-damaging fights with the
Savage Dragon andMighty Man . The Dragon fight was a test to see if he was up to joining Youngblood. Instead, Dragon, a police officer, arrests him.He also once visited Hell, confronting Spawn's old enemy the Violator. This was after being named temporary security head of a scientific installation that was investigating the realm of hell. He was more responsible at this point, trying to protect the many innocent people who had unwittingly made the trip to Hell with him. He had to deal with the intereference of heavenly and hellish agents and the unwillingness of some of the humans to actually obey his orders.
When Youngblood was discontinued after the death of
Riptide , Badrock took some time off. It did not last long though and through a series of events, he became part of the fourth incarnation of Brigade.In the year 3000, Badrock was still alive and returned for a brief period of time to get some help from Youngblood to stop the
Katellans . The continued presence of the Katellans to get Combat back led to the destruction of Earth, Katella and Acura in Badrock's timeline. Badrock had therefore returned to 1995 to prevent this from happening. The mission succeeded. What happened to Badrock after this is unknown.Name Change
* Upon Youngblood's debut, the character's name was originally "Bedrock", but Liefeld changed the name to "Badrock" to avoid confusion with
The Flintstones ' town, as well as avoiding a possible legal threat from Hanna-Barbera Productions, especially with the "Flintstones" movie being released at the time.Fact|date=June 2007 This legal threat is also parodied during a television report seen in "Spawn" #12.ee also
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*List of current Image Comics publications
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